Before & AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Chess-Ed students will enjoy a stimulating class featuring a specialized chess lesson and time to play against other students. Students will grow their knowledge of opening theory, middle game tactics and endgame combinations. Students will expand their vocabulary as they continue to learn definitions for various tactics and openings and how to apply them on the chess board. Students will study world famous chess games as well. Need a minimum of 8 students.

This class features higher belt level training techniques including self-defense, forms, and basic. Fast paced class includes traditional Shaolin Kung Fu, conditioning and stretching. The class meets at Quads gym (next door) and pick up is at Quads at 4:45.

Let your children release their inner masterchef!

We’re whipping up some fresh and tasty content for your budding kid chef this season by focusing on 3 super fun COOL-inary themes in our after-school cooking class sessions:FUN-da-mentals: In our first class, your kid chef will develop confidence in the kitchen by learning the FUN-da-mentals: measuring, mixing, mashing, blending, and more! These skills set the foundation for cooking and baking, and students will learn these skills while creating a delicious sweet treat with a nutritious twist! Kitchen Tools PhD: In subsequent classes, students will move on to earning their Kitchen Tools PhD! Recipes provide tons of engaging and tactile learning for kids to perfect their dicing, slicing, mincing, grating, folding and chopping with a wide variety of kitchen tools, from graters and immersion blenders to whisks, wooden spoons and kid-safe kitchen knives. These kitchen tools help develop and hone fine motor skills as kid chefs prepare savory recipes together with their peers.COOL-inary Confidence: Students will also learn to “Cook Off the Cuff” for several classes and develop their COOL-inary Confidence with fun & flexible recipes that let them choose the vegetables, herbs, and spices from a bundle of colorful and tasty options. Each hands-on, real-world class will encourage your young chef to engage all of their 5 senses while expressing their own unique culinary creativity, trying new foods, and thinking about how each component will contribute to their own tasty recipe masterpiece in the end!Our professional chef instructors guide kid chefs by providing safe, entertaining, hands-on learning throughout the class, but it’s the kid chefs who do the prepping and the cooking! Our class sessions are a BLAST for all ages! When kids get to touch the ingredients and have a hand in creating their food, they’re much more willing to try new foods. We provide all of the tools, ingredients and instruction needed to cook up a delicious, healthy and hearty after-school snack each week.

Our online recipe collection is included as well for loads of future family cooking fun at home! www.stickyfingerscooking.com/recipesSticky Fingers Cooking is 100% nut free. We CAN and WILL accommodate ANY and ALL food allergiesSticky Fingers Cooking has been providing kosher cooking classes for kids since 2011. We prepare and cook kosher foods at a kosher venues (school/home/community centers). We use all new equipment to prepare and cook the recipe with the children at a kosher venue. This becomes a 100% kosher cooking kit. We mark these cooking kits as kosher.  Sticky Fingers Cooking only prepares vegetarian foods. All foods brought in will be certified as kosher that we bring in for our students to prepare with us. All plate ware and serving ware and utensils will either be disposable or new (reusable) items. Sticky Fingers Cooking trains our Chefs on these kosher protocols and details. Needs a minimum of 8 students.  

Your child will explore a wide variety of subjects from rockets and robots to famous artists by learning to paint, draw, collage and sculpt. Tactile materials like clay, wax strings, oil pastels and acrylic paints will help your child enjoy learning the basic principles of art and invite them to think creatively with a new project each week. Needs a minimum of 5 students.

This class will focus on the basics and fundamentals of hip hop, a social dance that raised to the top in the 90s and continues to evolve today. Students will be working on picking up rhythm through moves that include popping, locking, footwork, and freestyle. As they begin to understand the basics of dancing to rhythm through fundamental hip hop moves, we will move on to learning more choreography based phrases. This class will be a high energy, fun, and all inclusive class where students will tap into their creativity, funk, and confidence. Needs a minimum of 4 students.

Robotics

Grades: 4 - 8th                                                              Teacher: Ms. Allen                                     Price: $275

Students will engineer, build, and program Lego EV3 robots. The class will be entirely student driven- if they can dream it, we will figure out how to do it! Any skill level welcome, no previous experience required.Needs a minimum of 4 students.

Sticky Fingers Cooking JK - SK
Grades: JK - SK                                                         Teacher: Sticky Fingers Vendor                   Price: $280.00

Let your children release their inner masterchef! 

We’re whipping up some fresh and tasty content for your budding kid chef this season by focusing on 3 super fun COOL-inary themes in our after-school cooking class sessions:

FUN-da-mentals: In our first class, your kid chef will develop confidence in the kitchen by learning the FUN-da-mentals: measuring, mixing, mashing, blending, and more! These skills set the foundation for cooking and baking, and students will learn these skills while creating a delicious sweet treat with a nutritious twist! 

Kitchen Tools PhD: In subsequent classes, students will move on to earning their Kitchen Tools PhD! Recipes provide tons of engaging and tactile learning for kids to perfect their dicing, slicing, mincing, grating, folding and chopping with a wide variety of kitchen tools, from graters and immersion blenders to whisks, wooden spoons and kid-safe kitchen knives. These kitchen tools help develop and hone fine motor skills as kid chefs prepare savory recipes together with their peers.

COOL-inary Confidence: Students will also learn to “Cook Off the Cuff” for several classes and develop their COOL-inary Confidence with fun & flexible recipes that let them choose the vegetables, herbs, and spices from a bundle of colorful and tasty options. Each hands-on, real-world class will encourage your young chef to engage all of their 5 senses while expressing their own unique culinary creativity, trying new foods, and thinking about how each component will contribute to their own tasty recipe masterpiece in the end!

Our professional chef instructors guide kid chefs by providing safe, entertaining, hands-on learning throughout the class, but it’s the kid chefs who do the prepping and the cooking! Our class sessions are a BLAST for all ages! When kids get to touch the ingredients and have a hand in creating their food, they’re much more willing to try new foods. 

We provide all of the tools, ingredients and instruction needed to cook up a delicious, healthy and hearty after-school snack each week. Our online recipe collection is included as well for loads of future family cooking fun at home! www.stickyfingerscooking.com/recipes

Sticky Fingers Cooking is 100% nut free. We CAN and WILL accommodate ANY and ALL food allergies

Sticky Fingers Cooking has been providing kosher cooking classes for kids since 2011. We prepare and cook kosher foods at a kosher venues (school/home/community centers). We use all new equipment to prepare and cook the recipe with the children at a kosher venue. This becomes a 100% kosher cooking kit. We mark these cooking kits as kosher. Sticky Fingers Cooking only prepares vegetarian foods. All foods brought in will be certified as kosher that we bring in for our students to prepare with us. All plate ware and serving ware and utensils will either be disposable or new (reusable) items. Sticky Fingers Cooking trains our Chefs on these kosher protocols and details. Needs a minimum of 8 students.

Mixed media video/ photography Class

Grades: 2 - 5                                              Teacher: Ms. Grazman                                              Price: $285.00

Children will work on developing a movie plot and use video and photography techniques to create a movie trailer.
Requirements: No prior photography knowledge needed. Needs a minimum of 4 students.

Knotty Kids Club

Grades: 2 - 8                                              Teachers: Ms. Ryback and Ms. Townhouse             Price: $310.00

Come explore all that string has to offer! Explore a variety of techniques to create friendship bracelets, weaving, hand embroidery, and more! Learn how different cultures use string to create textiles and visual artworks, such as Native American dream catchers, Mexican Ojo de Dios, and Oaxacan string art. Pieces range from wearable art to hanging wall and display. Grade levels: 2nd and up! Needs a minimum of 4 students.

This class will focus on the basics and fundamentals of hip hop, a social dance that raised to the top in the 90s and continues to evolve today. Students will be working on picking up rhythm through moves that include popping, locking, footwork, and freestyle. As they begin to understand the basics of dancing to rhythm through fundamental hip hop moves, we will move on to learning more choreography based phrases. This class will be a high energy, fun, and all inclusive class where students will tap into their creativity, funk, and confidence.Needs a minimum of 4 students.

The Force Awakens in this introductory engineering course for young Jedi! Explore engineering principles by designing and building projects such as LEGO® X-Wings, R2 Units, Energy Catapults, Defense Turrets, and Settlements from a galaxy far, far away. Create motorized and architectural projects with imagination and engineering to defeat the Empire! Needs a minimum of 8 students.

Design your own shirt, design and cut decal for your room, even make yourself a pin or keychain, personalized card for the upcoming holiday - easy!. The possibilities are endless... are you ready to explore?Needs a minimum of 4 students.

Homework HotSpot
Grades: 5 - 8                                                               Teacher: Ms. Thompson                                             Price: $250
This after school homework helping session is your one-stop shop for reading, writing, history or science. Whether you want study tips for that upcoming vocabulary quiz, need to review a science lesson from the week or really want to take that history project to the next level, Homework Hot Spot is the place for you. Needs a minimum of 4 students.